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In this paper we introduce a novel notion of separation surfaces for image decomposition. A surface is embedded in the spectral total-variation (TV) three dimensional domain and encodes a spatially-varying separation scale. The method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Dikla Horesh , Guy Gilboa

We present a new proof of the sphere covering inequality in the spirit of comparison geometry, and as a byproduct we find another sphere covering inequality which can be viewed as the dual of the original one. We also prove sphere covering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-02 Changfeng Gui , Fengbo Hang , Amir Moradifam

The scattering of scalar waves by a set of scatterers is considered. It is proven that the scattered field can be represented as an integral supported by any smooth surface enclosing the scatterers. This is a generalization of the series…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Didier Felbacq , Anthony Gourdin , Emmanuel Rousseau

For a convex body on the Euclidean unit sphere the spherical convex floating body is introduced. The asymptotic behavior of the volume difference of a spherical convex body and its spherical floating body is investigated. This gives rise to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Florian Besau , Elisabeth Werner

In this short note we propose a new method for construction new nice arrangement on the sphere $S^d$ using the spaces of spherical harmonic.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-27 Andriy Bondarenko

Spectral Method is a commonly used scheme to cluster data points lying close to Union of Subspaces by first constructing a Random Geometry Graph, called Subspace Clustering. This paper establishes a theory to analyze this method. Based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

A new method Spherical Rectangular Equal-Area Grid (SREAG) was proposed in Malkin (2019) for splitting spherical surface into equal-area rectangular cells. In this work, some more detailed features of SREAG are presented. The maximum number…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Zinovy Malkin

We study the surface area of an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space as the function of the lengths of their major semi-axes. We write down an explicit formula as an integral over the unit sphere, use the formula to derive convexity…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

This paper presents a new method for automatic quantification of ellipse-like cells in images, an important and challenging problem that has been studied by the computer vision community. The proposed method can be described by two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Wesley Nunes Gonçalves , Odemir Martinez Bruno

In this paper, we introduce an alternative representation of the electromagnetic field scattered from a homogeneous sphere coated with a homogeneous layer of uniform thickness. Specifically, we expand the scattered field using a set of…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Mariano Pascale , Giovanni Miano , Carlo Forestiere

The simplest version of the Spin-polynomial invariants of the underlying differentiable structures of algebraic surfaces were considered and the simplest arguments were used in order to distinguish the underlying smooth structures of…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Andrej Tyurin

In this paper, we propose using the scattering surface area rather than the scattering cross section to characterize the scattering behavior of ellipsoidal rigid bodies. We examined the scattering behavior of ellipsoidal rigid bodies,…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-21 Youning Li

Subdivision surfaces are proven to be a powerful tool in geometric modeling and computer graphics, due to the great flexibility they offer in capturing irregular topologies. This paper discusses the robust and efficient implementation of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Bert Jüttler , Angelos Mantzaflaris , Ricardo Perl , Martin Rumpf

We begin by studying the surface area of an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space as the function of the lengths of the semi-axes. We write down an explicit formula as an integral over the unit sphere in n-dimensions and use this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

Consider a geodesic triangle on a surface of constant curvature and subdivide it recursively into 4 triangles by joining the midpoints of its edges. We show the existence of a uniform $\delta>0$ such that, at any step of the subdivision,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Florestan Brunck

Mimicking natural tessellation patterns is a fascinating multi-disciplinary problem. Geometric methods aiming at reproducing such partitions on surface meshes are commonly based on the Voronoi model and its variants, and are often faced…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Rhaleb Zayer , Daniel Mlakar , Markus Steinberger , Hans-Peter Seidel

Optimal surface segmentation is a state-of-the-art method used for segmentation of multiple globally optimal surfaces in volumetric datasets. The method is widely used in numerous medical image segmentation applications. However, nodes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Abhay Shah , Michael D. Abramoff , Xiaodong Wu

This work describes a new version of the Fast Multipole Method for summing pairwise particle interactions that arise from discretizing integral transforms and convolutions on the sphere. The kernel approximations use barycentric Lagrange…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Anthony Chen , Robert Krasny

The setting for this brief paper is R^3. Distance between two spheres is understood as distance delta between spherical centers. For instance, a Reuleaux tetrahedron T is the intersection of four unit balls satisfying delta=1 pairwise.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-24 Steven R. Finch